Ignite Scorch is an 8 week introduction to web development course, split up into 1.5 hour sessions once a week. The aim of the course is to give people a chance to explore web development, and learn the skills they need to get websites up and running. Since this is a more advanced course you will need to know the programming fundamentals taught in ignite beginner & ignite flare, but no prior web development experience is required.
By the end of the course you will:
We achieve this a bit differently, by having mentees work on exercises inspired by real world requirements. Right from session 1 you will be buiding webpages, by session 2 fully mobile responsive sites, and by the end you will have the knowledge to design, build, deploy, and secure those websites!
Along with just how to do the basics, we teach you other principles in building websites like:
We also have an end of session gala where we have industry speakers come in and do presentations. We also give mentee’s a chance to show off their projects (if they want to).
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This session is here to have everyone setup their development environments and get introduced to the course!
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This session will help cover the basics of how webpages work, building basic pages, and a bit about design!
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This session will cover using advanced CSS, and CSS frameworks!
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This session will cover using advanced CSS to design sites, and continuing to use CSS frameworks (specifically bootstrap) as well as introducing javascript!
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This session will cover how to use existing code effectively, and legally. As well as some more advanced Javascript techniques
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In this session we cover the basics of markup languages, how to get data into our HTML and static site generators to create sites that are easier to maintain
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In this session we will look at how to deploy sites, how basic networking works, and the basics of CI/CD (automation) systems
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In this session we will look at how to build out a backend, get data from users, and how to retrieve data from external sources!